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eggs of the smelt, would not the light affect them in 
their natural condition in a small stream?” To-day I 
can only answer this very sensible question by saying 
that sunlight will kill our eggs in the jars, and in this 
year of our Lord, 1894, I have seen smelt eggs hatch on 
stones in a rapid stream with not over two inches of 
water over them, and inthe brightest of sunshine. This 
is one of the problems that we have not solved. | 
In the Report of our Society for 1887, page’ 11, will 
be found my item on smelt hatching under the title of 
mvone at Cold Spring Harbor.” Yin this: it) isistated 
that ‘“‘out of 4,000,000 eggs we hatched and planted 
2,000,000 fry, or about 50 per cent., which is as good as 
wewhave ever done.” .1 added that,“the little smelt 
carries a great many eggs for its size, from 30,000 to 
60,000 or perhaps more, and from too ripe females of 
good size, probably 5,000,000 could be obtained.” In 
the reports of the U.S.and N. Y. Fishery Commissions 
the foregoing statements have been embodied, the 
American Fisheries Society getting the first reports 
because their meetings were held earlier in the season 
than the other reports were called for 
Until last year we stripped the fish and impregnated 
the eggs by hand, but holding our fish in the hatching 
troughs until ripe we found that many females had 
spawned in the troughs and also that the percentage of 
impregnation was very high and that they hatched well. 
This year we gathered all our eggs from the troughs, 
passed them through wire screens to separate them and 
put them in the jars. At intervals of two or three days 
or whenever the eggs seemed inclined to gather in 
bunches we repeated the operation, gently forcing the 
eggs through the screens with the fingers, and after a 
few such screenings the “foot” seemed to be destroyed. 
This ‘‘foot” is a projection on the egg, which is shaped 
like the stem and bottom of a wine glass, and is the 
only point of adhesion which the egg of the smelt has ; 
